Bacon was not employed about it by Government, and his work in the House was confined to carrying on matters left unfinished from the previous session.

On the rumour of legal promotions and vacancies Bacon once more applied to Salisbury for the Solicitorship (March, 1606).

But no changes were made, and Bacon was "still next the door." In May, 1606, he did what had for some time been in his thoughts: he married; not the lady whom Essex had tried to win for him, that Lady Hatton who became the wife of his rival Coke, but one whom Salisbury helped him to gain, an alderman's daughter, Alice Barnham, "an handsome maiden," with some money and a disagreeable mother, by her second marriage, Lady Packington.

Bacon's curious love of pomp amused the gossips of the day.

"Sir Francis Bacon," writes Carleton to Chamberlain, "was married yesterday to his young wench, in Maribone Chapel.